The Trench Warfare 2022 NFL Draft Film Room - Episode 2 featuring Oklahoma G Marquis Hayes

Welcome back everyone to the second episode of the 2022 NFL Draft film room where I sit down with former Oklahoma left guard Marquis Hayes. Hayes finished his career at Oklahoma with 36 starts all at left guard under renown line coach Bill Bedenbaugh inside a multiple run scheme.

Hayes is a tone-setter with excellent length, a knack for staying attached and finish blocks at a very high level.

The most impressive aspect of his profile as a player is how quick of a processor he is on the field. Hayes diagnoses line games, gap exchanges and stunts quickly, showing the necessary processing skills, patience and body positioning to make snap adjustments and locate the most dangerous man.

You can read my full scouting report on Hayes here.

For the film room below, Hayes and I sat down over the course of about 40 minutes to break down 50+ plays from his 2021 season against Nebraska, Texas, TCU, Oregon and Oklahoma State.

Here are some of the themes and topics that we covered:

• Skip vs. Open pull

• Kicking out vs. ‘logging’

• The importance of pad level and hand placement for creating leverage on a block

• Hayes walking me through several of Oklahoma’s run concepts including play-calls, intent, and background

• What a tone-setter and high-level level ‘finisher’ looks like on tape

• Quick processing, patience and film study coming together to sort gap exchanges

• The art of keeping a defender inside the cylinder of your body as a blocker

• Examining different pass sets (shoe set) against different alignments (3T, 2i)

• Why the ability to stay attached to blocks, eliminate space on a defender and recover is so important to the success of a play

• The value of having premier length (Hayes’ arm length at the Senior Bowl was 35 1/8)